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Christmas season is coming up.

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We seem to have been conditioned to dislike the rain.

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Finally, a bit of good news! I texted DOTC Sec Jun Abaya to ask him the status of the work Japanese contractor Takenaka was supposed to do in NAIA 3.

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Finally, a bit of good news! I texted DOTC Sec Jun Abaya to ask him the status of the work Japanese contractor Takenaka was supposed to do in NAIA 3.

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